Danai Gurira

Age: 48

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Danai Jekesai Gurira (/dəˈnaɪ ɡʊˈrɪərə/; born February 14, 1978) is a Zimbabwean-American actress, playwright, and activist. She is best known for her starring roles as Michonne on the AMC horror drama series The Walking Dead (2012–2020, 2022) and The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live (2024), and as Okoye in the Marvel Cinematic Universe superhero films, including Black Panther (2018) and Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2022). Gurira is the writer of the Broadway play Eclipsed, for which she was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Play. Gurira received two nominations for The People's Choice Awards in 2019 and 2020 for her role on The Walking Dead, and she was also nominated for a 2024 Black Reel Television award for Outstanding Writing in a Drama Series for her work on The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live. Description above from the Wikipedia article Danai Gurira, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Danai Gurira

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for Lexa in Lorien Legacies

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Lorien Legacies

Based on the books by Pittacus Lore. In a distant galaxy, the peaceful planet Lorien was decimated by the brutal Mogodorians. The last survivors of Lorien, the Garde, were sent to Earth as children. Scattered across the con- tinents, they developed their Legacies and readied themselves to defend their adopted home world. This series follows the journey of nine Loric teenagers who must unite to prevent Earth from sharing in their planet's fate at the hands of the Mogodorians.

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